Donald Trump, Peter Thiel (center) met with and Apple CEO Tim Cook (right) and other leaders in December 2016.

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Nearly 100 tech companies, including Facebook, Github, Uber, Lyft, and more have signed on to a court filing submitted to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals late Sunday night, Pacific Time.

The firms are now adding their support to a fast-moving lawsuit, State of Washington v. Trump, to halt the recent executive order that placed new immigration restrictions on people from seven majority-Muslim nations.

On Friday in federal court in Seattle, US District Judge James L. Robart ruled
against the government, finding that a temporary restraining order was
warranted, and that the president overstepped his bounds. For now, the
Seattle judge’s nationwide ruling stands—late Saturday night, the 9th
Circuit rejected the government’s attempt to get an emergency stay of the order.

The filing came less than two months after
high-level executives from several tech companies, including Apple CEO
Tim Cook, attended a "summit" with the then-president-elect at Trump
Tower in New York.

According to earlier reporting by the Seattle Times,
over 21,000 Washington residents were born in Somalia, Iran, Iraq,
Sudan, Syria, Libya, and Yemen. In court filings, state lawyers
said that over 7,000 state residents were affected by the ban.